School: Ceathrú an Chalaidh
- Location:
- Carraholly, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brian Mac Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)As fat as a fool
You might as well be asking the grace of God in a public house.
As drunk as a bean a leanna.
He will be found dead with a spade in his hand.
Can a duck swim' said, as an answer to a question when a person is willing to do a thing.
He is on the pig's back.
By their deeds you shall know them.
You can take the boy from the country, but you can't take the country from the boy.
When it rains it pours.
Stepping on a cow dung widens it.
God made the back for the burden.
If a rogue in one town, a rogue in the next.
A empty house wants no thatch.
An empty house is better than a bad tenant.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Ní Cheallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Mairtín Ó Riagáin
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Prionsias Ní Mhóráin
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Tomas de Stonduin
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Giobúin
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Treasa Ingham
- Gender
- Female
